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CHARLES A. GLOEKLER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SMOKE- HOUSE.

SPECIFICATION forming* part of Letters :Patent No, 629,351, dated J' uly25, V1899. A Application filed February 23, 1899. Serial No. 706,516.(No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. GLoEK-- LER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Smoke-Houses,of which the following is a speciication.v Y

. My invention relates to houses' for smoking butchers products, and hasfor one of its objects to provide a smoke-house embodying a knockdowncasing and a rotary support for the products to be smoked readilydetachable 'from its base an-d also from the knockdown casing. f

Anotherl object of the invention is to provide a smoke-house embracing arotatable -support for the products to be smoked and means for impartingan intermittent rotary Ymotion to said support while the smoke-house` isin use, whereby all of the products in the house are subjected to theaction of the same.

or'substantially the same amount of smoke,

and uniformity in the color of 'the products is insured. Q

With the foregoing ends in view the invention-will be fully understoodfrom the followling description andclaims when t-akenin conjunction withthe accompanying drawings, in

zontal section taken on the line 3 'of Fig. 2.

' oetagonal form in cross-section.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of the support for-the productsto be smoked, the same beingshown as removed from the house.

In the said drawings similar letters desigf' nate corresponding parts inall of the several views.

The casing A of `my improved is preferably built of sheet metalsmoke-house and is of It is made up of a top wall or roof a of octagonalform, two side sections b, havingflanges c at one vertical edge, twoside sections d, having iianges c at their opposite vertical edges, flatside sections e e', interposed between the two sections d and betweenthe sections d b, re-

spectively, and detachably connected by bolts f to the flanges of thesame and a side section g, which is connected by hinges to one secironbase 7,

i tion b, so'as to serve as a door, and'is preferably provided with alatch h, designed to engage a keeper i lon the other section b. At

their lower ends the side sections b d e e are detachably connected bybolts f' to the vertically-disposed portion of an octagonal angleand attheir upperA ends said side sections are detachably connected by boltsf2 to the vertically-disposed portion of an octagonal angle-irona, whichin turn is permanently connected to the top wall or roof a. By reason ofthe construction described when itis desired to ship the smoke-housefrom one point to another the side sections b d e e of the casing A maybe readily disconnected from each other and from the base-iron j and thetop or roof ct by simply removing the connecting-bolts f, f', and f2,and may be conveniently packed, so as to take up but a minimum amount ofroom in shipment. It also follows from the construction described thatwhen the parts ofthe casing A arrive at the point where the smoke-houseis to be located said casing parts may be connected together quite asreadily as they were disconnected.

In the door-section g of the casing A, at a point adjacent tothe lower`end thereof, are formed ajsuiiicient Vnumber of draft-openings Vg tosupport combustion of the smoke-making fuel in the casing, and in thetop wall a of said casing and preferably at an opposite pointV withrespect to the openings g is a smoke-eduction aperture o1. Arranged onthe ground or other support on which the casing A rests and located inthe center of said casing is a pedestal B. This pedestal is provided `inits upper end with a bearing Z, in which is journaled the lower trunnionfm, of the support C forsthe products to be smoked, the upper trunnion'n of which extends through and is journaled in the top a of the casingand a reinforcing-plate p thereon. The support is preferably in the formof a reel and comprises aflower head q, an upper head r, angle-ironuprights s, connecting the lower and upper heads, and angle-iron bars t,connecting the uprights at either side of the reel and havingoutwardly-directed lateral arms u. The an.

ner shown in Fig. 4, and the lateral arms u,

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2 ceai of said bars t are also designed to support sausages and otherproducts.

As best shown in Fig. 2, the trunnion n of the reel or product-support Cextends above the roof of the casing A, where it is provided with awheel D, bearing upwardly-directed teeth o. These teeth of the wheel Dare designed to be engaged by the tappet w of a Wheel E, which ris fixedon a shaft F, journaled in suitable bearings on the casing A, and henceit will be seen that when the smokehouse is in use and the shaft F isrotated an intermittent rotary motion will be imparted to the reel orproduct-supportv (3e-that is to say, said reel or support will be causedto makev a portion of a revolution incident to each complete revolutionof the wheel E and shaftF. By virtue of this the products to be smokedare vleft in one position but a short time, and; consequently all theproducts will be smoked to the same extent and all will be ofthe-samecolor. This is also true-when the fire is built adjacent to the door gor at one side of the smokehouse, for it will be observed that all ofthe products will be presented tosuch side in succession.

The'inte-rrnittent rotation of the reel or product-support C is alsoVadvantageous, because it enables an operator standing a-t thedooropeningy of the casing and without said casing toremove all of thesmoked products from the reel or support and charge said reel or`support with fresh products while the smoke-house is in operation. Thisdischarging and charging of the reel or support C is also materiallyfacilitated by the use of the bars of wood or other material which reston the angle-bars t, since said Wood barsv with their loads of sausages.or other products may be very readily placed on and removed from thereel or support C.

For the purpose of permittinga ready disconnection of the easing A fromthe reel or product-support C, when the casing is to be knocked downvfor shipment they upper trunnion n of the,v reel is4 not connected tothe upper head r of the reel, but is simply keyed in said head after themanner shown in Fig. 2. Fromthis it follows that not only may the casingbe readily disconnected .from the reel when the casing is to be knockeddown, but

said casing may be as readily connected to the reel When its parts areagain assembled and connected together.

I prefer to employ the angle-iron base j at the lower end of the casingA, since it lends strength and stability to said casing. I do notdesire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the use of thebase j, as the casing is complete without the same. I also do notvdesire to be understood as confining myself to the specific constructionand relative arrangement of the parts asherein shown and described, assuch changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fallwithin the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what -I clai in is-F l. In asmoke-house, the combination of a casing having a door in its sideWalland also having an inlet for air and an outlet for smoke located atopposite points, a rotary support arranged in the casing and havingatrvunnion journaled in the top thereof, a shaft journaled in bearings onthe casing and adapted to be continuously rotated by a suitable motor,and intermittent gearing between said shaft and the trunnion of theproduct-support for partially rotatingthe support. incident to eachrotation of the shaft, subs-tantially as specified.

2. In a smoke-house, the combinationI of a knockdown casing having adoor, a pedestal loosely arranged in said casing, alrotaryproduct-support havingl a trunnion journaled in and removable fromthe pedestal, a trunnion keyed in and removable from the upper end ofsaid support, and journaled in the topof the casing, the wheel D fixedon the latter trunnion above the casing and having teeth '0, and theshaft journaled i-n bearingsV on the nesses.

CHARLES A. GLOEKLER. /Vitnesses:

J. ED'. GLOEKLER, ALBERT GLOEKLER.

